Why did people lobby so hard to get the 80 byte limit removed in order to make their application work

If someone is dumping full blocks of garbage into their trashcan, my mempool will know about it... That's all a mempool policy can do. I'm not running a fork or something, and I'm certainly not mining any blocks... So it's not up to me to construct blocks with larger or smaller trashcans.

"the no raping signs at the park did not prevent violent assaults against women so we should just legalise raping"